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Rock Creek Trail Maintenance, AZ
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| Hiking | 8.72 Miles |
3,364 AEG |
| | Hiking | 8.72 Miles | 4 Hrs 42 Mns | | 1.86 mph |
| 3,364 ft AEG | | | | |
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| partners | | Spent the weekend doing trail maintenance event on Rock Creek Trail in the Mazatzal's. Arrived Friday to help setup the car camp area that many people who signed up for the event would camp. After the setup was complete and more people arrived we settled in for the evening with a nice fire.
Next morning it was hike up the trail for 3 of us with the goal of backpacking and camping in the work zone. The rest of the group about 14 in total would day hike to the work zone and clear trail before hiking back down to the trailhead.
Once the 3 of us reached the start of the work zone we quickly setup camp and then grabbed our gear for the day. The plan was to hike to the divide about 2 miles up trail and work backwards down trail towards the rest of the crew who were clearing from the start of the work zone near our camp.
To add some context in Oct of 2023 we cleared from the AZT junction Hopi Spring up Rock Creek Trail all the way to the divide. So the plan was to start where we left off last year and keep clearing trail down the opposite side. Since we had to hike all the way to the divide we only got about 0.4 miles cleared on Saturday before hiking back down to our backpack camp for the night. The crew working the lower section had also cleared about 0.4 miles but that section was much thicker brush and slow going.
Based on Saturday's progress we decided that next day we would focus on the brushiest sections to make sure that got cleared and to ensure we completed the link up with the crew working lower down. That strategy proved to be a good choice because we were able to complete the brushiest sections and make sure that the entire lower section was cleared.
For people who know Rock Creek Trail it's completely cleared up to the waterfall area. Above that the trail is in better shape with less brush so we will be back to finish about 0.6 miles of trail left to clear. |
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